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“There is a deepfake explosion. It is rapidly proliferating and saturating media everywhere. Over 95% of deepfake is pornography, 99% of that porn is of girls and women, and 95% of that porn is nonconsensual. The only effective solution is for governments to ban them at every stage of production and distribution, putting legal accountability on the companies that provide deepfake technology, the creators of deepfake content, and everyone in between, including users who feel entitled to view with impunity such abusive imagery of bodies, violating our dignity and rights."
Ashley Judd
"AI is making deepfakes easier, faster, and cheaper. If laws don’t deter people from propagating them, fraud could escalate, and democracy, which depends on truth, could be undermined. Counterfeiting people should be outlawed, just like counterfeiting money or legal documents."
Steven Pinker
What are
Deepfakes?
Deepfakes defined
Deepfakes are non-consensually AI-generated voices, images or videos that are created to produce sexual imagery, commit fraud, or spread misinformation.
A growing threat
Rapid AI improvement has made deepfake creation fast, cheap and easy.
Between 2022 and 2023, deepfake sexual content increased by over 400%, and deepfake fraud increased by 3000%.
Time to act
The only effective way to stop deepfakes is for governments to ban them at every stage of production and distribution.
This must place legal accountability on the companies that provide deepfake technology, the creators of deepfake content, and everyone in between.
SIGN THE OPEN LETTER
Join hundreds of public figures, experts, and citizens calling for a ban on deepfakes
Our Policies
1. Make deepfakes a crime
The creation and dissemination of deepfakes must be a crime.
2. Hold developers accountable
Model developers must be held liable for negligence.
3. Hold deployers accountable
All providers of deepfakes must be held liable for negligence.
